Camara impressed me at Macau this year, so him, LeClerc and assuming Giovinazzi in GP2 sounds very good to me. I tend to only watch feeder series for important or good races, but I think I might watch GP2 from the start this year, and European F3.

his 2015 was nothing special, but this year he's come second in ADAC and Italian Formula 4 (worth noting he did 3 races fewer than the champion Marcos Siebert and was only behind by 15 points in Italian F4) and is currently leading the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 championship, having won two of the four races.

I don't think he's got the talent of his father, but I think he has a fair bit of potential.

Andretti Autosport continues to play Santa. And Cleveland native Ryan Norman who recently won the Formula Pro Atlantic has been signed for 2017. Norman is by far the 3rd driver for the squad joining Nico Jamin and Dalton Kellett.

Belardi Racing is currently taking part of testing at Sebring this week as new signees Shelby Blackstock and Aaron Telitz are joined by 2016 Pro Mazda series runner-up Santiago Urrutia who is making a tryout for the team.

2015 USF2000 series champion Nico Jamin has signed with Andretti Autosport Indy Lights team replacing Dean Stoneman. The French driver who has a solid season in the Pro Mazda Championship finishing 3rd in the standings will join Dalton Kellett for 2017.

Chinese driver Guan Yu Zhou - A development driver for Scuderia Ferrari - has become the latest signee for Prema F3 team after his 2016 season with Motopark joining Callum Illiot. Also in weeks time, the team is expecting to fill their roster with Mick Schumacher and Honda development driver Tadasuke Makino.

And Colton Herta makes his detour back to America joining Michael Andretti and new partner - New York Yankees owner Hank Steinbrenner for the 2017 Indy Lights season. This was made possible by the late George Steinbrenner's (III) grandson George IV.

Good news: Louis Deletraz has signed for a GP2 seat. He'll drive for RE next year.Still a bummer he didn't win the FR3.5 title because of that flaming idiot Cipriani, but at least it hasn't harmed his career progress.

Chinese driver Guan Yu Zhou - A development driver for Scuderia Ferrari - has become the latest signee for Prema F3 team after his 2016 season with Motopark joining Callum Illiot. Also in weeks time, the team is expecting to fill their roster with Mick Schumacher and Honda development driver Tadasuke Makino.

Chinese driver Guan Yu Zhou - A development driver for Scuderia Ferrari - has become the latest signee for Prema F3 team after his 2016 season with Motopark joining Callum Illiot. Also in weeks time, the team is expecting to fill their roster with Mick Schumacher and Honda development driver Tadasuke Makino.

Chinese driver Guan Yu Zhou - A development driver for Scuderia Ferrari - has become the latest signee for Prema F3 team after his 2016 season with Motopark joining Callum Illiot. Also in weeks time, the team is expecting to fill their roster with Mick Schumacher and Honda development driver Tadasuke Makino.

Chinese driver Guan Yu Zhou - A development driver for Scuderia Ferrari - has become the latest signee for Prema F3 team after his 2016 season with Motopark joining Callum Illiot. Also in weeks time, the team is expecting to fill their roster with Mick Schumacher and Honda development driver Tadasuke Makino.

No way, he needs way more time. His F4 seasons were OK, but not overwhelming. By racing with Prema there's a clear upgrade path to GP2 first that I suspect will be used.

Only in case he takes a very dominant F3 title in 2017 I could see a remote chance, but even then I'm not sure. Where would he go in 2018?

There will be plenty of teams willing to give Schumacher a go. Any sign of talent he will be parachuted into F1 as quickly as possible. Verstappen got to F1 with just a 3rd in F3 and that was without the Schumacher name.

There will be plenty of teams willing to give Schumacher a go. Any sign of talent he will be parachuted into F1 as quickly as possible. Verstappen got to F1 with just a 3rd in F3 and that was without the Schumacher name.

"Just" a third in F3 is a fantastic achievement for a rookie season in car racing altogether, especially when he was the better driver once he had accustomed to car racing, and amassed 10 wins over the season.

Mick hasn't shown that kind of special talent, and so I don't believe there's a realistic possibility for him to race in F1 in 2018.

There will be plenty of teams willing to give Schumacher a go. Any sign of talent he will be parachuted into F1 as quickly as possible. Verstappen got to F1 with just a 3rd in F3 and that was without the Schumacher name.

"Just" a third in F3 is a fantastic achievement for a rookie season in car racing altogether, especially when he was the better driver once he had accustomed to car racing, and amassed 10 wins over the season.

Mick hasn't shown that kind of special talent, and so I don't believe there's a realistic possibility for him to race in F1 in 2018.

Agreed. But surely a top 2 in F3 will show enough for teams to move in, considering who it is.

Carlin officially closes their GP2 program. Likely to focus on Indy Car. But their other Junior programs in British F3, Euro Formula Open and British F4 stay along with their Indy Lights program. They have expanded into USF2000.

This is going to keep me interested over the winter as I study Red Bull backed Richard Verschoor more closely, on the negative side yes he dominated two F4 series but you could question the quality and the low numbers of drivers competing, then you look at this series that he leads and it's more through consistency than being the fastest driver.

But then I look more closely and he's a rookie against many drivers that are not and I would say he is probably not in the best team, M2 competition has dominated the series in the past 2 seasons with their drivers finishing 1-2 in the competition and it's noticeable that M2 drivers qualified on the front row in both qualifying sessions, they have both posted a DNF in the 3 races run thus far hence Verschoor leads the series.

So he's not been gifted an easy ride and in the first competitive series he's really been involved in it will be interesting to see how things pan out.

Haas F1 have announced that Santino Ferrucci will be retained for 2017. He recently tested for DAMS and Trident at Yas Marina last December. But it is not sure which GP3 team will land. It is also undetermined if he will receive FP1s this 2017.

This is going to keep me interested over the winter as I study Red Bull backed Richard Verschoor more closely, on the negative side yes he dominated two F4 series but you could question the quality and the low numbers of drivers competing, then you look at this series that he leads and it's more through consistency than being the fastest driver.

But then I look more closely and he's a rookie against many drivers that are not and I would say he is probably not in the best team, M2 competition has dominated the series in the past 2 seasons with their drivers finishing 1-2 in the competition and it's noticeable that M2 drivers qualified on the front row in both qualifying sessions, they have both posted a DNF in the 3 races run thus far hence Verschoor leads the series.

So he's not been gifted an easy ride and in the first competitive series he's really been involved in it will be interesting to see how things pan out.

Very indeed. Another case like Verschoor is Brazilian-born US driver Bruno Carneiro who dominated the entire China Formula 4 series making the podium 14 out of 15 events he raced - including 8 wins enroute to win the FIA F4 China series title.

Haas F1 have announced that Santino Ferrucci will be retained for 2017. He recently tested for DAMS and Trident at Yas Marina last December. But it is not sure which GP3 team will land. It is also undetermined if he will receive FP1s this 2017.

Signing Verhagen was a surprise move. Especially for an American driver. But he did it the old fashioned way after winning the Formula 1600 series in the US. This was a privilege and has earned it. It is great for Red Bull to provide a chance.

He is also the recipient of the Road Racing Drivers Club's Mark Donahue Award who will receive this upcoming Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.

I followed the third race on live timing, the race must have been either wet of just damp because the lap times were just over a minute, Verschoor started 5th but was up to second on the opening lap, he took a couple of laps to settle in whilst the leader Randle built a lead of 1.5 seconds and was also being put under pressure from Habsburg.

Then Verschoor upped his pace and started closing in on Randle, then on lap 6 it appeared that both Randle and Habsburg must have had spins, Randle dropped a few places whilst Habsburg rejoined at the back of the field.

Verschoor then coasted to an easy 10 second + win, what I've noticed about him is that he's good in the wet which is a good sign, his first win was after Randle was penalised 10 seconds for jumping the start but unlike the first w/e when he scored the most points through consistency this time he looked more like a class act.